It couldn't possibly be that they're under-compensating pilots on purpose. Oh no, that would never be the case. Oh hey! Guess what? We have missiles and drones that can fly autonomously, and don't disobey orders. I guess we'll just have to figure out how to further remove the human element from war so that it doesn't require anyone actually believing in the war effort enough to put their lives on the line...
Yep, so unfortunate. Guess we'll just let the machines rule everything... Don't forget to submit to a full body scan at the airport, and pay your red-light camera ticket, and buy a new game console with a child-spy-eye -- press those 'quick-time' buttons exactly as the machines demand kiddies. You wouldn't mind labeling your friends in these social network photos like felons in a line up, right? I mean, we'll just track your friends and family just in case you ever get out of line.
The not unreasonable assumption is that if a child can find porn, then an ISP can automate the process of finding it and blocking it. To the layperson, the idea that all these clever people can come up with a way to search the internet and classify content and even rate the quality of that content but are suddenly flummoxed by coming up with a way of reliably blocking porn that kids can find sounds more like "well, we don't want to block porn, so we'll tell you it's impossible and tell you that you don't understand the internet".
Fuck off moron. Install nanny ware for your kid if you're a concerned parent. You don't parent the fucking nation. Retard.
Not to mention, Ominvore was ported to Microsoft OSs as a basic pork handout to implement Carnivore... Precursors to PRISM. MS is in DEEP with the surveillance state. I can't honestly recommend their platforms from a security standpoint, let alone an ethical one.
It's easy to talk big about what you would do. Once you saw the results if the US government decided to go all-out on Deer Trail, you might not be quite so inclined toward chest-thumping.
Son, I am an American. If my government does that shit to its own people, then it's my duty to die for my country in the fight against these terrorists "foreign or domestic".
You're right to think I can't tell you what I would do if attacked by terrorists, but realize that's only because it would ruin the element of surprise.
So you're saying there's a market for cannons that shoot shotguns which in turn has a prox sensor to fire and take out drones?
Well, my History Channel official Civil War Reenactment kit did come with a few Ancient Aliens. You call 'em what you like, but them's UFOs to me, sonny.
Mars is trapped in its orbit and will remain there for the foreseeable future. It will still be there once we have developed the new energy solutions we need on this planet.
What application is demanding the development of new energy solutions? Right now ALL OF OUR EGGS ARE IN ONE BASKET. Solving the extinction problem should be priority #1. You call yourself Sentient?! Get your ass to Mars. Damn, we can't be ANY more blunt than that! The dinosaurs! Think!
So, here you are, with a space program. You've got a HUGE fabulous moon that's easy to see and get to that's got the same chemical composition of your planet, and a nice deep crater at the south pole to hang out in from solar storms. The next planet out has more gravity but has no magnetic field or atmosphere, but it's got resources you can use... PERFECT trial grounds for learning how to survive in deep space. Beyond that, there's a huge asteroid field with abundant resources for building things in space without the gravity tax, including Ceres a dwarf planet made of ice and rock... Ice = water = hydrogen & oxygen... grrrrr. Next we have a HUGE Gas Giant to study gravitational effects without getting burnt by the sun. In the solar system you just happen to find yourself in there are beautiful ringed worlds further out, and There's ice moons and moons full of methane, and... And... AND.
calm, stay calm...
And this puny minded ape wants to JUST SIT THERE?! You let defected pieces of shit like this survive among you?! You'll NEVER solve the Fermi Paradox at this rate!
Remember back when Internet worms were rampant? Yeah, back then we had all ports open by default in popular desktop operating systems. Finally they were convinced to release a service pack that closed all ports (turned on the firewall by default) and nearly all the worms went away.
That's what you call using a whitelist instead of a blacklist. A blacklist is stupid, but I guess it's the only option you have if everyone is too stupid to utilize the whitelist. This problem has been boiling for a while, and its come down to authentication of endpoints and blocking all others not in the trust graph. If only there were some system that allowed you to authenticate emails and form decentralized trust graphs... Like PGP.
So, How do you automatically sanitize all the packets hitting your ports? You don't. You block all but the ones that are legitimate. How do you automatically sanitize PDF Email Attachments? You don't. You block all but the ones that are legitimate.
Instead of thinking me clueless, or unhelpful consider that I've already been down that road as far as it can be traveled and wound up in the exact situation I started. Absolute security is impossible, make the environment hostile to propagation. Call up the other IT guys in the businesses you do work with, it's a problem you can't solve on your own. If only Jedi Mind tricks actually worked, you could convince your managers to let you live. These scanners are not the solutions you are looking for. Whitelists are the way to go.
Having larger brains than cows, their acclimation to our invisible fences and behavior modifiers had to be more gradual and less painful, but every bit as effective.
from being locked out due to a broken/lost/defective key/card/etc in any other building access system...?????
Oh, my good eyeball is around here somewhere, just a second. How embarrassing! Ah, you know I think I left it at home. How did I even make it here without it? Ha heh, oh.... Say, you could just lend me yours?
You have to prove that they're doing it. And you can't do that because the information is classified.
Have to? Negative. We could call a vote of no confidence in congress. We could DEMAND all government actions be made public record. However, this would require us to be as American as our founders...
Is it really non obvious?
Government official paints Hackers as dangerous in the public eye, cites Feds may want to stay away from the uncontrollable trouble makers attending Defcon.
Distracts threat of global surveillance state by pointing at a few computer nerds who can hack your Facebook until some bug is patched.
I'd trust a random 12 year-old Chinese hacker before I'd trust an organization that's currently torturing and keeping people locked up illegally.
This is what's known as a false dichotomy. We at your local Federal Government will be here for you to trust mere moments after you have trusted the Cheenager.
They don't seem to think that maybe, just maybe, actual respect for the lives, privacy, and freedom of the citizens they're supposed to be serving is a better solution.
Perhaps you define better different than they do? IE: Unchecked Power and Unlimited Funds. Tell me citizen, what powers may you grant us, that we may not take our selves? What benefit can you give us, that turning knowledge into stock can not?
This technology is great, but at that density it's practically useless for preserving human knowledge beyond our race. We can be fairly certain that beings in our universe will be able to sense some form of electromagnetic radiation (as star light seems to be a common energy source), they will likely have at least two such receptors to achieve depth perception of our universe's three macro scale physical dimensions. I have used interference patterns myself to create mediums capable of conveying four dimensional knowledge directly to any such beings instantaneously -- when I was a teenager, hell they even have cheap starter kits now.
Using simple techniques available to even basement holographers one can create integral holograms AKA 4D holograms AKA multiplexed holographic movies that animate as the viewing angle changes. More precise setups can encode more movie (requiring slowly turning) or even multiple images with more integration. That is to say we've been making holographic videos for a few decades. So, when we got macro scale 4D holographic representations in the material it's big news... Increasing the density isn't actually revolutionary for long term storage.
The advantage of the 4D hologram over 3D holograms or 2D images is that it can encode motion directly reproduced without requiring any mechanism but itself a viewer and light. 4D means we can convey causality in our depictions, and thus much more easily describe the process for understanding a denser data store... It's a lot more compact and intuitive than a flip-book, or film reel, for example. Hey, I turn this crystal and the dude in there points between the fire and the silly "FIRE" symbols, Oh! That's their word for it.
Devising a way to utilize something as stable as these crystals in place of holographic film one could create other such holographic videos depicting activities and literally teaching our symbolic languages and descriptions of manufacturing processes that would survive a million years. It is these even more durable LOW density optical representations that can provide a doorway into our culture from beyond itself. Once those who discover and learn the analog to our teachings we could encode in the simpler 4D holograms would be capable of understanding the technique required to play back the dense 5D data-structures in TFA. The Aliens Won't Need To Decode The TFA's Disks to really know who or what we are, they'll already have learned that.
We'll have had to encode instructions for simpler systems such as sound playback to encode our speech and eventual understanding about wave propagation via sound vibration, possibly even 3D ultrasonic tactile feedback generators to convey other more complex ideas, long before they could decode these 5D data disks. Yes, even if you assume a super-intelligent race, they would come to understand who we were and what we thought about energy and other such things from the simpler low resolution storage prior to obtaining the data in TFA's disks. We wouldn't risk NOT giving them such things in case our data encoding remained an enigma.
What remains for you to encode in 5HD other than the much more trivial rambling of our race? Don't get me wrong: Music, books, movies, video games, etc. would be a wealth of knowledge about us to anthropologists of an alien race... However, all the important stuff that any of their equivalent of layperson would know would be the important bits from a lower density data storage.
Furthermore. If you encode some data on one of these disks, and launch it into space, the data on the voyager disks will have remained in storage still longer. If there's an event to destroy the data from the golden disks we've sent, then it would likely also defunct a crystal. Rise in temperature is rarely, if ever, part of an isolated event.
Think about it. What good would 5HD data do you without a machi
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The presumption that all the information shouldn't be public knowledge before we allow such programs to operate is detrimental to a free society.
Failing beating them, joining them is on the table? Ah, It's time for another round of the three E's: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Headlamps. You only need light where you are looking. I thought this was a solved problem?
'Three guys sitting in a room, hacking away, watching porn, and getting paid to do it — life was good,'
It's not gay if we don't make eye contact with each other... Why are you staring at m-- Ohh, my bad. Carry On!
It couldn't possibly be that they're under-compensating pilots on purpose. Oh no, that would never be the case. Oh hey! Guess what? We have missiles and drones that can fly autonomously, and don't disobey orders. I guess we'll just have to figure out how to further remove the human element from war so that it doesn't require anyone actually believing in the war effort enough to put their lives on the line...
Yep, so unfortunate. Guess we'll just let the machines rule everything... Don't forget to submit to a full body scan at the airport, and pay your red-light camera ticket, and buy a new game console with a child-spy-eye -- press those 'quick-time' buttons exactly as the machines demand kiddies. You wouldn't mind labeling your friends in these social network photos like felons in a line up, right? I mean, we'll just track your friends and family just in case you ever get out of line.
The not unreasonable assumption is that if a child can find porn, then an ISP can automate the process of finding it and blocking it. To the layperson, the idea that all these clever people can come up with a way to search the internet and classify content and even rate the quality of that content but are suddenly flummoxed by coming up with a way of reliably blocking porn that kids can find sounds more like "well, we don't want to block porn, so we'll tell you it's impossible and tell you that you don't understand the internet".
Fuck off moron. Install nanny ware for your kid if you're a concerned parent. You don't parent the fucking nation. Retard.
Not to mention, Ominvore was ported to Microsoft OSs as a basic pork handout to implement Carnivore... Precursors to PRISM. MS is in DEEP with the surveillance state. I can't honestly recommend their platforms from a security standpoint, let alone an ethical one.
I see you're not a member of the glazier union...
May his noodley appendage touch you, I was expecting to explain my relief at not having to explain. Thanks be to you, and also to FSM.
It's easy to talk big about what you would do. Once you saw the results if the US government decided to go all-out on Deer Trail, you might not be quite so inclined toward chest-thumping.
Son, I am an American. If my government does that shit to its own people, then it's my duty to die for my country in the fight against these terrorists "foreign or domestic".
You're right to think I can't tell you what I would do if attacked by terrorists, but realize that's only because it would ruin the element of surprise.
Three weather balloons and a net then.
So you're saying there's a market for cannons that shoot shotguns which in turn has a prox sensor to fire and take out drones?
Well, my History Channel official Civil War Reenactment kit did come with a few Ancient Aliens. You call 'em what you like, but them's UFOs to me, sonny.
Mod Redundant. Cousin's brother? I mean, really... ;P
Mars is trapped in its orbit and will remain there for the foreseeable future. It will still be there once we have developed the new energy solutions we need on this planet.
What application is demanding the development of new energy solutions? Right now ALL OF OUR EGGS ARE IN ONE BASKET. Solving the extinction problem should be priority #1. You call yourself Sentient?! Get your ass to Mars. Damn, we can't be ANY more blunt than that! The dinosaurs! Think!
So, here you are, with a space program. You've got a HUGE fabulous moon that's easy to see and get to that's got the same chemical composition of your planet, and a nice deep crater at the south pole to hang out in from solar storms. The next planet out has more gravity but has no magnetic field or atmosphere, but it's got resources you can use... PERFECT trial grounds for learning how to survive in deep space. Beyond that, there's a huge asteroid field with abundant resources for building things in space without the gravity tax, including Ceres a dwarf planet made of ice and rock... Ice = water = hydrogen & oxygen... grrrrr. Next we have a HUGE Gas Giant to study gravitational effects without getting burnt by the sun. In the solar system you just happen to find yourself in there are beautiful ringed worlds further out, and There's ice moons and moons full of methane, and... And... AND.
calm, stay calm...
And this puny minded ape wants to JUST SIT THERE?! You let defected pieces of shit like this survive among you?! You'll NEVER solve the Fermi Paradox at this rate!
What is this new page formatting where things follow you as you scroll called?
PRISM
Now I know, and knowing was half the battle.
Intel stats say we now have a 50% success rate against these foes.
Remember back when Internet worms were rampant? Yeah, back then we had all ports open by default in popular desktop operating systems. Finally they were convinced to release a service pack that closed all ports (turned on the firewall by default) and nearly all the worms went away.
That's what you call using a whitelist instead of a blacklist. A blacklist is stupid, but I guess it's the only option you have if everyone is too stupid to utilize the whitelist. This problem has been boiling for a while, and its come down to authentication of endpoints and blocking all others not in the trust graph. If only there were some system that allowed you to authenticate emails and form decentralized trust graphs... Like PGP.
So, How do you automatically sanitize all the packets hitting your ports? You don't. You block all but the ones that are legitimate. How do you automatically sanitize PDF Email Attachments? You don't. You block all but the ones that are legitimate.
Instead of thinking me clueless, or unhelpful consider that I've already been down that road as far as it can be traveled and wound up in the exact situation I started. Absolute security is impossible, make the environment hostile to propagation. Call up the other IT guys in the businesses you do work with, it's a problem you can't solve on your own. If only Jedi Mind tricks actually worked, you could convince your managers to let you live. These scanners are not the solutions you are looking for. Whitelists are the way to go.
Having larger brains than cows, their acclimation to our invisible fences and behavior modifiers had to be more gradual and less painful, but every bit as effective.
from being locked out due to a broken/lost/defective key/card/etc in any other building access system...?????
Oh, my good eyeball is around here somewhere, just a second. How embarrassing! Ah, you know I think I left it at home. How did I even make it here without it? Ha heh, oh.... Say, you could just lend me yours?
You have to prove that they're doing it. And you can't do that because the information is classified.
Have to? Negative. We could call a vote of no confidence in congress. We could DEMAND all government actions be made public record. However, this would require us to be as American as our founders...
American? Negative. I am a meat popsicle.
Is it really non obvious?
Government official paints Hackers as dangerous in the public eye, cites Feds may want to stay away from the uncontrollable trouble makers attending Defcon.
Distracts threat of global surveillance state by pointing at a few computer nerds who can hack your Facebook until some bug is patched.
Film at 11.
Protip. Jeff Moss is a government agent. His past deeds mean nothing. They know where he and his loved ones live.
I'd trust a random 12 year-old Chinese hacker before I'd trust an organization that's currently torturing and keeping people locked up illegally.
This is what's known as a false dichotomy. We at your local Federal Government will be here for you to trust mere moments after you have trusted the Cheenager.
They don't seem to think that maybe, just maybe, actual respect for the lives, privacy, and freedom of the citizens they're supposed to be serving is a better solution.
Perhaps you define better different than they do? IE: Unchecked Power and Unlimited Funds. Tell me citizen, what powers may you grant us, that we may not take our selves? What benefit can you give us, that turning knowledge into stock can not?
I came.
This technology is great, but at that density it's practically useless for preserving human knowledge beyond our race. We can be fairly certain that beings in our universe will be able to sense some form of electromagnetic radiation (as star light seems to be a common energy source), they will likely have at least two such receptors to achieve depth perception of our universe's three macro scale physical dimensions. I have used interference patterns myself to create mediums capable of conveying four dimensional knowledge directly to any such beings instantaneously -- when I was a teenager, hell they even have cheap starter kits now.
Using simple techniques available to even basement holographers one can create integral holograms AKA 4D holograms AKA multiplexed holographic movies that animate as the viewing angle changes. More precise setups can encode more movie (requiring slowly turning) or even multiple images with more integration. That is to say we've been making holographic videos for a few decades. So, when we got macro scale 4D holographic representations in the material it's big news... Increasing the density isn't actually revolutionary for long term storage.
The advantage of the 4D hologram over 3D holograms or 2D images is that it can encode motion directly reproduced without requiring any mechanism but itself a viewer and light. 4D means we can convey causality in our depictions, and thus much more easily describe the process for understanding a denser data store... It's a lot more compact and intuitive than a flip-book, or film reel, for example. Hey, I turn this crystal and the dude in there points between the fire and the silly "FIRE" symbols, Oh! That's their word for it.
Devising a way to utilize something as stable as these crystals in place of holographic film one could create other such holographic videos depicting activities and literally teaching our symbolic languages and descriptions of manufacturing processes that would survive a million years. It is these even more durable LOW density optical representations that can provide a doorway into our culture from beyond itself. Once those who discover and learn the analog to our teachings we could encode in the simpler 4D holograms would be capable of understanding the technique required to play back the dense 5D data-structures in TFA. The Aliens Won't Need To Decode The TFA's Disks to really know who or what we are, they'll already have learned that.
We'll have had to encode instructions for simpler systems such as sound playback to encode our speech and eventual understanding about wave propagation via sound vibration, possibly even 3D ultrasonic tactile feedback generators to convey other more complex ideas, long before they could decode these 5D data disks. Yes, even if you assume a super-intelligent race, they would come to understand who we were and what we thought about energy and other such things from the simpler low resolution storage prior to obtaining the data in TFA's disks. We wouldn't risk NOT giving them such things in case our data encoding remained an enigma.
What remains for you to encode in 5HD other than the much more trivial rambling of our race? Don't get me wrong: Music, books, movies, video games, etc. would be a wealth of knowledge about us to anthropologists of an alien race... However, all the important stuff that any of their equivalent of layperson would know would be the important bits from a lower density data storage.
Furthermore. If you encode some data on one of these disks, and launch it into space, the data on the voyager disks will have remained in storage still longer. If there's an event to destroy the data from the golden disks we've sent, then it would likely also defunct a crystal. Rise in temperature is rarely, if ever, part of an isolated event.
Think about it. What good would 5HD data do you without a machi